Midnight Musings of a Family Therapist

By Carl A. Whitaker

Book Overview

A compilation of Carl Whitaker's lectures and un-published essays, taken from his 40 years of practice as a psychiatrist and family therapist. He talks about families, including his own, and the events that shaped the family therapy field, and psychotherapy.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393700844
• ISBN13: 9780393700848
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Trusted the unconscious

Carl Whitaker was the most gifted family therapist of all time. What differentiated his work most from that of other family therapists was the extent to which he trusted what would come up in his unconscious when he was engaged with a family. This memoir of sorts is filled with hard-won wisdom (not just information) about what it really means to be a therapist. Any therapist, whether working with families or individual patients, can learn a great deal from Whitaker. And, if they ever have a chance to see a video of him actually working with a family, they will really have a treat.